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Contact: Mark Mahoney
Associate
Director of Media Services
mmahoney@nysba.org
518-487-5532
June 8, 2012
VIDEO OF MAY 30 WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS PRESS CONFERENCE AVAILABLE
ONLINE
The State Bar Association and the Innocence Project held a joint press
conference on May 30, 2012, to urge the governor and the
Legislature to approve legislation that would help reduce wrongful
convictions in New York state.
The press conference featured leaders of the State Bar Association
and the Innocence Project, several wrongfully convicted New York
men, the mother of a wrongfully convicted individual, a Texas rape
victim who identified the incorrect suspect, a Duke University
lacrosse player wrongfully accused of rape, and a North Carolina police
captain whose department has successfully initiated the reforms called
for at the press conference.
Here is a link to a video of the press conference, courtesy of
Assemblyman Joseph Lentol's office: www.nysba.org/0530pressconference
The New York State Bar Association, with 77,000 members, is the largest
voluntary state bar association in the country. It was founded in
1876.
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